“Chris Cox, Facebook’s chief product officer, is forcing an untold number of Facebook employees to drop their iPhones for Android phones,” Tim Lahan reports for Wired. “‘I am mandating a switch of a whole bunch of my team over to Android, just because people, when left up to their own devices, will often prefer an iPhone,’ Cox said yesterday during a briefing with an unusually large collection of reporters, many at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California, and many others watching via online video from locations in other parts of the world.”
“No, Facebook has not developed some sort of vendetta against Apple. Nor is it compelled to suddenly endorse the products of arch-rival Google. This is a practical decision,” Lahan reports. “Though the iPhone may be the preferred device in Silicon Valley, Facebook now serves over 1.5 billion people across the globe, and a vast swath of these people—especially newer users in emerging markets—use the social network on Android phones.”
“As Facebook seeks to reach ever more people around the world, Cox says, he wants a good portion of his team on the world’s most popular mobile platform ‘so that they can be reporting bugs and living in the same experience that most Facebook users experience today,'” Lahan reports. “And that’s merely the latest push. Earlier this week, Facebook told the press it had created what it calls ‘G Tuesdays.’ Every Tuesday, when they arrive at Facebook’s Disneyland-like headquarters and open their own Facebook apps, employees will see a message asking if they’d like their app to behave as if was on the rather slow 2G connections that drive the Internet in other parts of the world.”
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MacDailyNews Take: In related news, Purina today forced an undisclosed number of employees to put down their forks, push back from the lunch table, get down on all fours, and start eating dog food straight from the bowl.
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